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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

This year, from Seattle, Washington, to Miami, Florida, and many towns and cities in between, educators will host more than 170 grassroots events on Saturday, June 8 and throughout the month. In many places, it takes immense courage for an educator to participate in our program. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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Challenging Anti-History Education Laws: Teachers Receive 14,000 Books on African Americans During WWII

Zinn Education Project

Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Redrafting of the history standards started in 2021 under the administration of Ralph Northam, the former Democratic governor. But in August 2022, the new proposed standards, which included recommendations from the state’s African American History Education Commission, were put on hold to allow Youngkin appointees a chance to review them.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” All of this reached a boiling point last April, when Pennridge hired a brand-new consultancy firm called Vermilion Education.

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Teach Truth History Walking Tours

Zinn Education Project

Along the way, participants learn about history they wish they had learned in school. The event hosts can point out that teachers are trying to share this history, but they face censorship from anti-history education laws and Executive Orders.

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